{"id":829,"date":"2024-03-05T20:36:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esustage.wpengine.com\/kansas-city\/?page_id=829"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:52:42","slug":"evelyn-wrench-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/evelyn-wrench-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Evelyn Wrench Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"\" class=\"content-over-image show-overlay\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/Meeting-picture-scaled.jpg');\">\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n                <h5 class=\"title\">What We Do<\/h5>\n        \n                <div class=\"subtitle\">Evelyn Wrench Lecture Series<\/div>\n        \n        \n        <div class=\"buttons\">\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"\" class=\"esu-basic-full-width\">\n\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n\n            \n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The ESU Shreveport Branch<\/strong> hosts many prominent authors and scholars including ESU\u2019s own Evelyn Wrench Lecture Series named after our founder. These renowned British and American speakers present programs on a wide range of\u00a0 topics, including but not limited to, current events, history, language, literature, art, architecture, and travel.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In September, 2024, the Shreveport Branch was privileged to welcome Baroness Catherine Meyer direct from London who presented an intriguing program on her book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSurvivor.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <b>Catherine Irene Jacqueline Meyer, Baroness Meyer<\/b>,<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_Meyer,_Baroness_Meyer#cite_note-1\"><span class=\"cite-bracket\">[<\/span>1<span class=\"cite-bracket\">]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> <span class=\"nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks\"><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Commander of the Order of the British Empire\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire\">CBE<\/a><\/span> (<span title=\"Name at birth\"><a title=\"Birth name\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names\">n\u00e9e<\/a>\u00a0<b>Laylle<\/b><\/span>; born 26 January 1953), is a British politician, businesswoman and Conservative life peer. She is the widow of Sir <a title=\"Christopher Meyer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Meyer\">Christopher Meyer<\/a>, the former <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"British Ambassador to the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Ambassador_to_the_United_States\">British Ambassador to the United States<\/a>. In 1999, she founded the charity PACT, now <a title=\"Action Against Abduction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Action_Against_Abduction\">Action Against Abduction<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Meyer_2020_crop_2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Meyer_2020_crop_2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Meyer_2020_crop_2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Meyer_2020_crop_2-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Meyer_2020_crop_2.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In March 2023, the Shreveport Branch hosted Dr. James Raven. \u00a0<b>James Russell Raven<\/b> LittD FBA <a title=\"Society of Antiquaries of London\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London\">FSA<\/a> (born 13 April 1959) is a British scholar specializing in the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"History of the book\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_book\">history of the book<\/a>. His published works include <i>The English Novel 1770\u20131829<\/i> (2000), <i>What is the History of the Book?<\/i> (2018)<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Raven#cite_note-1\"><span class=\"cite-bracket\">[<\/span>1<span class=\"cite-bracket\">]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> and <i>The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book<\/i> (2020).<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Raven#cite_note-2\"><span class=\"cite-bracket\">[<\/span>2<span class=\"cite-bracket\">]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> As of 2024, he was professor emeritus of history at the <a title=\"University of Essex\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Essex\">University of Essex<\/a>, a life fellow of <a title=\"Magdalene College, Cambridge\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magdalene_College,_Cambridge\">Magdalene College, Cambridge<\/a>, and a professor in the humanities at the <a title=\"Norwegian University of Science and Technology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwegian_University_of_Science_and_Technology\">Norwegian University of Science and Technology<\/a> (NTNU).\u00a0 He spoke about &#8220;<i>What is the History of the Book?<\/i> &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/James-Raven-headshot-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/James-Raven-headshot-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/shreveport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2025\/09\/James-Raven-headshot-768x1024-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n            \n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-829","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - 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